This is an analysis of the poem The Criminal V that begins with:
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand toward all who passed, begging and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110101101101010001100101111101010010111110101001100010111000101001010 111011101101111101010 110011110010111100111100111001010101101100011111011100111110101111010101100111011111001001111010111010101111111010101010111111001111101110111110 10100101110111011101101101010100 001011101101110001010110011101001001110001010101011101010111101111010101011011110010101110100011111010010100 0100100101010101001111101110110010111011001010110101101011011110101 010110100101001001110001100111011011001011010101010101001000101101011011 110110010010011000010111000101110101001001111101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 288 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 52
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, he, me, i, to, but, of, from, all, hand, while, hunger, by, in, it, humanity are repeated.
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